3 drown over Easter weekend

Two men, one an Adventist, the other a 20-year-old, remained unaccounted for up to late evening after their bodies disappeared under water in separate incidents at Mayaro on Sunday, police sources have said.

The two missing people have been identified as adventist and self-employed Joel Constance, 30, of Ojoe Road, Sangre Grande, and unemployed Stephanas Gomez, 19, of La Romain, San Fernando. Coast Guard officials were up to late evening assisting police officers of the Eastern Division in their search for the two bodies. Reports are that around 2.30 pm Sunday, Gomez, in company with others,  was bathing in a sea off Caravan Court, church Street, Mayaro, when his body disappeared. 

Police sources said a man identified as Sookram Boodoo informed them that lifeguard Suraj Mansook told them that around 3.15 pm he (Mansook) made attempts to save the teenager but that his body had not surfaced. In the other reported drowning, police said around 5 pm Sunday, Constance and ten others went out in a fishing boat at Caneemi, Mafeking Village, Mayaro. Police said on reaching Green Acres, Constance and the others dived from the boat into the Ortoire River, but Constance’s body did not re-surface. A report was made and a party of officers under acting Insp Mohammed of the Mayaro Police Station visited the scene and conducted investigations.  Officers of the Mayaro Police Station are continuing investigations.

Meanwhile, Kishore Anook of Longdenville was the third person to die by drowning for the weekend. On Sunday evening the 43-year-old man went to a pond at Edinburgh 500 for a bath where he got into difficulties before disappearing under the water. Chaguanas police are continuing investigations.